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Nurija Pozderac

Nurija Pozderac
Non-Soviet revolutionary Yugoslavia Bosnia (Bosniak) 1892–1943 ✕ Killed in action

A Bosnian politician who embodied a multi-ethnic resistance coalition

When Ustaša leader Ljubomir Kvaternik came to Cazin in the summer of 1941 seeking his support, Pozderac refused even to grant him a meeting.

Nurija Pozderac was a Bosnian Muslim teacher turned politician from the Cazin region who refused the Ustaša regime's demand to collaborate and stood against its persecution of Serbs and Jews. With his wife Devleta he rescued dozens of Jewish refugees, and as a vice president of AVNOJ elected in 1942 he embodied the partisan movement's multi-ethnic character.

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  • 1910s–1930sTeacher in the Cazin region
  • 1935Deputy in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  • 1941Rejected Ustaša collaboration and joined the National Liberation Movement
  • 1942President of the Cazin National Liberation Committee
  • 1942Vice president of the AVNOJ Executive Board
  • 1943Participant in the Battles of Neretva and Sutjeska
  • 1944Posthumously awarded the Order of the People’s Liberation

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